Jan Zelenka-Hajsky

Jan Zelenka-Hajsky (3 March 1895-17 June 1942) was a leader of the Czechoslovak Resistance during World War II.

Biography
Jan Zelenka-Hajsky was born in Steinkirchen, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Kamenny Ujezd, Czech Republic) on 3 March 1895. He lived in the village of Haj u Duchcova before Czechoslovakia was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1939, and he became a Czechoslovak Resistance leader during World War II. In 1942, he masterminded the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, and he helped with hiding the Czech paratroopers who took part in Operation Anthropoid. On 17 June 1942, Zelenka-Hajsky and his son took cyanide as the Gestapo attempted to arrest them in their apartment after they were betrayed, while his wife was executed at Mauthausen on 24 October 1942.